Bay TV Liverpool was launched in November 2011 as a video-on-demand service producing local content, winning Best Media Website at the 2013 Prolific North Awards.
[5] A week later, Made Television announced it had bought out the station for an undisclosed sum - the group was one of four bidders who lost the original licence award to Bay TV.
In October 2023, the station was renamed TalkLiverpool as part of its partnership with Montgomery Media and Rupert Murdoch's News UK, TalkTV.
A half-hour block also airs on the generic Made Television networked feed on digital satellite each weekday evening at 7pm.
As of December 2021, the channel acts as a simulcast of CBS Reality for most of the day, with Local TV Liverpool's news broadcast at lunch between 1–2pm and in the evening between 6-8pm.
[20] In addition to these slots, Local TV comes back on air between 2-9am with repeats of its newscasts being listed next to a breakfast news update from 6am.